Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

05/29/1940 (US) • 11m

Documentary

Overview

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

fashion

promotional

old hollywood

short film

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